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01/04/1804
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Charlotte Lennox, English novelist (The Female Quixote), dies
Type: Death
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01/04/1805
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Stephan Hale Alonzo Marsh, composer
Type: Birth
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01/04/1807
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Baltasar Saldoni, composer
Type: Birth
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01/04/1809
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Louis Braille, Coupvray France, developer (reading system for blind)
Type: Birth
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01/04/1809
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Bartolomeo Giacometti, composer, dies at 67
Type: Death
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01/04/1813
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Alexander Freiherr von Bach, Austria attorney/premier (1852-59)
Type: Birth
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01/04/1813
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Isaac Pitman, Britain, inventor (stenographic shorthand)
Type: Birth
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01/04/1813
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Louis L Bonaparte, English/French linguist/senator
Type: Birth
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01/04/1821
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Elizabeth Ann Seton, 1st native-born American saint, dies in Maryland
Type: Death
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01/04/1821
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John James Peck, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1878
Type: Birth
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01/04/1822
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Joseph Jones Reynolds, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1899
Type: Birth
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01/04/1823
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Otto van Rees, gov-gen of Dutch-Indies (1884-88)
Type: Birth
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01/04/1823
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Peter Joseph Osterhaus, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1917
Type: Birth
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01/04/1825
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Ferdinand I, King of Sicily/Naples (Ferdinand IV), dies at 73
Type: Death
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01/04/1831
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Nikola P Neofit Rilski, Bulgaria abbot/poet, dies at 37
Type: Death
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01/04/1832
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Insurrection of Trinidad negroes
Type: Event
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01/04/1837
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Casimiro de Abreu, Brazil, poet (Camoes e o jau)
Type: Birth
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01/04/1838
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Charles Stratton, [General Tom Thumb] (famous short person)
Type: Birth
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01/04/1843
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Royal Academy (Technical Hague court) Delft opens
Type: Event
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01/04/1843
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Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Don Pasquale," premieres in Paris
Type: Event
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01/04/1843
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Petronella Moens, Frisian author/poetess, dies at 80
Type: Death
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01/04/1844
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Thomas H Rollinson, composer
Type: Birth
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01/04/1847
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Hendrik Goeman Borgesius, Dutch politician
Type: Birth
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01/04/1861
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US Ft Morgan, Mobile, seized by Alabama
Type: Event
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01/04/1861
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Pres Buchanan appoints a fast on account of threatened succession
Type: Event
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01/04/1862
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-Jan 17th) Battle of Ft Hindman, AK (Arkansas Post)
Type: Event
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01/04/1862
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Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson occupies Bath
Type: Event
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01/04/1862
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Battle of Helena, AK
Type: Event
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01/04/1863
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4 wheeled roller skates patented by James Plimpton of NY
Type: Event
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01/04/1864
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Mateo Ferrer, composer, dies at 75
Type: Death
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01/04/1869
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Percy Pitt, composer
Type: Birth
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01/04/1872
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Edmund Rumpler, Austria, auto/airplane builder
Type: Birth
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01/04/1874
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Sven Fleuron, writer
Type: Birth
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01/04/1874
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Josef Suk, Czech violinist/composer (Asrael)
Type: Birth
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01/04/1877
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Cornelius Vanderbilt, US robber baron, dies at 82
Type: Death
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01/04/1877
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Gibson Gowland, England, actor (Blind Husbands, Phantom of the Opera)
Type: Birth
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01/04/1878
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Alfred Edgar Coppard, England, writer (Black Dogs and Other Stories)
Type: Birth
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01/04/1880
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Anselm Feuerbach, German painter, dies
Type: Death
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01/04/1881
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Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German painter/poet/sculptor (Seated Youth)
Type: Birth
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01/04/1881
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Johannes Brahms' "Academic Festival Overture" premieres, Breslau
Type: Event
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01/04/1883
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Max F Eastman, US, critic/essayist (Masses)
Type: Birth
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01/04/1883
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Johanna Westerdijk, botanist/Neth 1st female prof (Utrecht, 1917-52)
Type: Birth
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01/04/1883
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Ontario Rugby Football Union (forerunner of CFL) forms
Type: Event
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01/04/1883
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Nicolas Ledesma, composer, dies at 91
Type: Death
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01/04/1884
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Last sighting of an eastern cougar (Ontario)
Type: Event
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01/04/1885
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Dr W W Grant of Iowa, performs 1st appendectomy (on Mary Gartside, 22)
Type: Event
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01/04/1885
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Eduard Yosif Kotek, composer, dies at 29
Type: Death
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01/04/1886
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Ernest Panckoucke, French publisher (Horace), dies at 77
Type: Death
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01/04/1887
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Thomas Stevens is 1st man to bicycle around the world (SF-SF)
Type: Event
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01/04/1888
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Arthur Berry, England, soccer player (Olympic-gold-1908, 12)
Type: Birth
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